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Social Judgments and Emotion Attributions about Exclusion in Switzerland
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Malti, Tina; Killen, Melanie; Gasser, Luciano – Child Development, 2012
Adolescents' social judgments and emotion attributions about exclusion in three contexts, nationality, gender, and personality, were measured in a sample of 12- and 15-year-old Swiss and non-Swiss adolescents (N = 247). Overall, adolescents judged exclusion based on nationality as less acceptable than exclusion based on gender or personality.…
Descriptors: Personality, Adolescents, Foreign Countries, Social Behavior
Children's Moral Judgments and Moral Emotions Following Exclusion of Children with Disabilities: Relations with Inclusive Education, Age, and Contact Intensity
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Gasser, Luciano; Malti, Tina; Buholzer, Alois – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2013
We investigated relations between children's moral judgments and moral emotions following disability-based exclusion and inclusive education, age, and contact intensity. Nine- and 12-year-old Swiss children (N = 351) from inclusive and noninclusive classrooms provided moral judgments and moral emotion attributions following six vignettes about…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Inclusion, Social Isolation, Vignettes
Moral Reasoning and Emotion Attributions of Adolescent Bullies, Victims, and Bully-Victims
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Perren, Sonja; Gutzwiller-Helfenfinger, Eveline; Malti, Tina; Hymel, Shelley – British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2012
This study investigated different facets of moral development in bullies, victims, and bully-victims among Swiss adolescents. Extending previous research, we focused on both bullying and victimization in relation to adolescents' morally disengaged and morally responsible reasoning as well as moral emotion attributions. A total of 516 adolescents…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Value Judgment, Bullying, Empathy
Moral Emotions and Moral Judgments in Children's Narratives: Comparing Real-Life and Hypothetical Transgressions
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Gutzwiller-Helfenfinger, Eveline; Gasser, Luciano; Malti, Tina – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2010
How children make meaning of their own social experiences in situations involving moral issues is central to their subsequent affective and cognitive moral learning. Our study of young children's narratives describing their interpersonal conflicts shows that the emotions and judgments constructed in the course of these real-life narratives differ…
Descriptors: Moral Issues, Moral Development, Social Development, Schemata (Cognition)
Children's Moral Motivation, Sympathy, and Prosocial Behavior
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Malti, Tina; Gummerum, Michaela; Keller, Monika; Buchmann, Marlis – Child Development, 2009
Two studies investigated the role of children's moral motivation and sympathy in prosocial behavior. Study 1 measured other-reported prosocial behavior and self- and other-reported sympathy. Moral motivation was assessed by emotion attributions and moral reasoning following hypothetical transgressions in a representative longitudinal sample of…
Descriptors: Prosocial Behavior, Motivation, Child Behavior, Psychological Patterns
Children's Peer Victimization, Empathy, and Emotional Symptoms
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Malti, Tina; Perren, Sonja; Buchmann, Marlis – Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 2010
This study investigated the concurrent and longitudinal relations among children's peer victimization, empathy, and emotional symptoms. The sample consisted of 175 children (85 girls, mean age = 6.1 years) recruited from kindergartens in Switzerland and followed for 1 year (Time 2). Parents and teachers reported on the children's emotional…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Victims of Crime, Empathy, Emotional Response